Clinical Laboratory Hematology 3rd Edition by Shirlyn McKenzie, Lynne Williams

Exercise 1

A 30-year-old female and a 25-year-old male both had bleeding ulcers. Assume that they acquired the ulcer at the same time, were losing about the same amount of blood, had equal amounts of storage iron to begin with, and were taking in about 15 mg of dietary iron each day. Would you expect that the woman and man would develop ID at the same time? Explain.